Capacitors
Understanding forced air cooling in power supplies
All power supplies generate waste heat which has to be dissipated. The heating effect becomes greater...
Powering your FPGA Applications
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have gained much attention and widespread application in the end...
eGaN® FET Drivers and Layout Considerations
When considering gate drive requirements, the three most important parameters for eGaN FETs are (1) the...
Driving AC-DC power supply efficiency even higher
Reducing the size and improving the efficiency of AC-DC power supplies are constant pressures. In addition...
DC Power Supplies –Design in House or Buy off-the-Shelf?
There are four options for their DC/DC converters when determining the power needs for their end product....
Advantages and Challenges of Third-Overtone IC Crystals
ICs with on-board oscillators requiring low frequency fundamental crystals are commonplace but now IC...
POLYMER CAPACITORS VS. MLCCS
Most often capacitor selection to the uninformed seems like a simple choice but the demands, challenges...
An Introduction to PIM
In recent years passive intermodulation (PIM) has become a major concern for wireless service providers...
High-Speed SERDES Interfaces In High Value FPGAs
Lattice Semiconductor has introduced two low cost FPGA families with SERDES, the LatticeECP2M, introduced...
Basics of Dual Fractional-N Synthesizers/PLLs
Over the years, a number of methods have been proposed to realize fractional-N frequency synthesis that...
Reliability in Electronics
Most of us are familiar with the concepts of reliability and MTBF at a superficial level, without considering...
Dual Protocol Transceivers Ease the Design of Industrial Interfaces
This white paper discusses the industry's most commonly used interface standards, RS-232 and RS-485,...
High performance resistors for custom power supplies
The subject of power supplies is potentially very broad and the application of resistors in power supplies...
Wilkinson Power Divider
The Knowles PDW05758 from DLI is a surface mount, thin film power divider employing a three section Wilkinson...
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